With the large scale settlement of displaced Jews into Palestine in the wake of World War Two, Israel was able to declare independence, although this was marked by bitter war in the region, and the beginning of the Arab-Israeli Conflict that continues to the present day. The Balfour Declaration did include a stipulation that "nothing shall be done that may prejudice the religious or civil rights of the existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine" - a clause that was not exactly heeded by the founders and rulers of Israel. But little more could have been expected as the declaration itself stripped the Arab community in Palestine of its right to land and self-determination. Lord Balfour was a true representative of the imperial values of his times - an anti-Semitic politician who sought to solve what was then seen as 'Europe's problem' while setting the stage for the creation of a pro-Western entity in the Arab world. His declaration was an embodiment of both imperialism and anti-Semitism, the repercussions of which are still being felt thousands of miles away from where his short policy statement was
Nasser standing up to Western imperialism is another factor of encouraging Arab unity such as the 1956 Suez crisis. An example is Nasser persuading British troops to leave the Suez Canal showing independence once again. Nasser, viewed as high prestige now, aimed to unite the Arab world. Although the operation was a military success it allowed Israel to occupy the Sinai. However, Nasser had forced the West into submission.
How far do you agree that the most important reasons for Arab disunity in the years 1945-79 was the self-interest of individual Arab states? Arab disunity | Other | * Arab Israeli wars:-1948 Egypt and Jordan used the war to gain land-1956 Nasser wanted more power-1967 Syria and Lebanon didn’t join the Arab forces-Camp David Egypt were kicked out-Balance could be that they all had a common cause to help Palestine * Iranian revolution-Iran Iraq war * Palestine (PLO)-desire to create the state of Palestine-Lebanese civil war | * Religious differences-Lebanese civil war-Sunni and Shai Muslims * Islamic fundamentalism-Iranian revolution * Western involvement-Camp David * The creation of Israel | the Arab disunity was caused by different factors between the years 1945-79. The self-interest of individual Arab states caused alot of diunity between the Arabs but it wasn't thw only reason. Religious differences and western involvement also created disunity amonst the Arabs. The self-interest of individual Arab states was a major role in the causing of Arab disunity.
U.S. President Harry Truman’s decision to help Israel become a sovereign country has many pros and cons. Nazis had oppressed Jews for several years, and when they were finally liberated, the U.N. felt they deserved to have a country of their own. The president’s studies of the Bible influenced him to believe that the Jews should immigrate to Palestine and divide it so that the surviving Jews can have their own sovereign country, Israel. However, this choice has advantages and disadvantages, as one might expect. One disadvantage to Truman’s decision to support Israel in becoming a sovereign country is that U.S. relations with the Arabs can be affected.
The Palestinian exodus, also known as the ‘al-Nakbah’ - the ‘disaster’. It describes a period of time during the Arab-Israeli war in 1948, when approximately 730,000 Arabs fled from their homes, as a part of ‘ethnic cleansing’ by the Jewish. The Jewish wanted to gradually get rid of Palestinian Arabs and gain land which would be free of this nationality. Both the Israeli and the Palestinian historians have come up with their own version of the event, from their own point of view, which makes it difficult to make a fair judgment, and it is still a unresolved and discussed problem today. It is important to acknowledge that the intentions of this essay is to in no way promote the rights of either the Israelis or the Palestinians, it is an attempt to judge the unclear history of the Palestinian exodus.
The Zionist movement called for the establishment of a nation-state for the Jewish people in Palestine, which would serve as a haven for the Jews of the world and in which they would have the right for self-determination. Zionists increasingly came to hold that this state should be in their historic homeland, which they referred to as the Land of Israel. among the first recorded violent incidents between Arabs and Jews in Palestine was the accidental shooting dead of an Arab man in Safed, during a wedding in December 1882, by a Jewish guard of the newly formed Rosh Pina. In response, about 200 Arabs descended on the Jewish settlement throwing stones and vandalizing property. Zionist ambitions were increasingly identified as a threat by the Arab leaders in Palestine region.
He was the one giving out the orders and dehumanizing the Jews. He was abusing the power his people gave him by doing all of these things. He could have put a stop to it just like Zimbardo but he didn’t. Just like in the story it took an outside force to stop all of
Around this time Zionism was developed, its aim was to establish its national homeland in Palestine and call it - by it title in the Old Testament - Israel. This was derived by Theodor Herzl, who after all his effort to do this, died before it pulled through. The Arabs, having an empire so great and so early in the Middle Ages, that it covered the Middle East, North Africa, and South Western Europe, it was evident that like most empires, a gradual decline was predictable. The Turkish Empire, by the sixteenth century assimilated the Arabs. Soon the Arabs wanted to become independent again and so, in 1913 the First
® How does the rise of Christianity occur? The Rise of Christianity The rise of Christianity began when roman power spread to Judea, the home of the Jews in 63b.c. Some Jews allied with the romans and accepted their plans to change Jerusalem. For example the ruler Herod, who angered many Jews. When he died the Jews began to revolt against roman influence.
Hamas thus saw Israel as a nation-state, the antithesis of an Islamic state. Hamas also saw Israel as the puppet of the West and this therefore led to increasing calls for Jihad against the Jewish state of Israel, also because the Arabs insecure of being unable to score decisive military victories against Israel.